Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Mercenaries

The unseen surge

clipped from www.bloomberg.com

A United Nations working group on the use of mercenaries said in February there were about 48,000 private employees working in support of the coalition forces in 2006, a figure about a third of the size of the U.S. military presence in Iraq and almost 10 times the deployment by the U.K.'s contingent in the country.

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